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The “Out of Range” message does involve your video card. It means that the resolution settings are set too high for the monitor to display. You could fix this by booting into safe mode and changing the display settings to a resolution that is within range. While you’re there check the screen refresh setting to make sure it’s within range, too. This is a simple fix, although it is unfortunate that you have to deal with it.

While I was not aware that nVidia 52.16 was a critical update, there are other software makers that have security holes in their software. It has been interesting to follow in some of the MS blogs the stories they tell of 3rd party apps cutting corners in their software development, which causes Windows to crash, which is blamed on MS. Perhaps earlier nVidia drivers don’t play nice with the latest MS patches, and so MS wants you to update your driver. Don’t see anything wrong with that. Just curious what driver are you using now?

kip

You could try going to Office Online and checking from that end. On my copy of Office 2003 clicking on the Help>Check for Updates pretty much just takes me to this site.

kip

You could try going to Office Online and checking from that end. On my copy of Office 2003 clicking on the Help>Check for Updates pretty much just takes me to this site.

kip

Ahhh the mysterious Free Office!!! I will answer your questions if you will get me one of these free CD’s! (Actually, don’t, cause I just bought Office 2003 Pro and I’d be mad if I got a free one now!)

OK:
1. Yes Office 2003 comes on one CD, and from what I’ve been hearing you are getting just what it says, a free full version.
2. Office 2003 installs itself by default in Program Files/Microsoft/Office 11. You do not have to uninstall your previous version. However you can only use one version of Outlook, so if you install Outlook 2003 you won’t be able to use your present version of Outlook. As for #5 I have found Office 2003 to be very intuitive about finding documents and files. If you have your .pst in it’s default location it shouldn’t have any trouble.
3. Like previous versions of Office, 2003 can open earlier versions. And like previous versions, 2003 has it’s own file format, so you will be prompted to save in either the previous or the new versions.
4. Same as above.

Try it you’ll like it! I am in the camp that really likes Outlook 2003. It is decidly the app that has changed the most, but if you are open minded about the changes, you will quickly grow to become quite attached to them. Other big changes in 2003 are in XML support, and Information Rights Management. One Note is an intriguing tool, do try it out. It is definitely a 1.0 release, but even with a keyboard and desktop it can be quite a useful place to quickly store bits of information. It’s kind of an uber-clipboard.

As to why MS has been casting these free copies to the wind, I can only guess, but since they’re single copies maybe they figure that the “new technology guy” (you???) in the office will get everybody else hooked.

Have fun. Post back with any problems or comments. Once you get going I’ll show you a neat trick with the Outlook flags!

kip

Ahhh the mysterious Free Office!!! I will answer your questions if you will get me one of these free CD’s! (Actually, don’t, cause I just bought Office 2003 Pro and I’d be mad if I got a free one now!)

OK:
1. Yes Office 2003 comes on one CD, and from what I’ve been hearing you are getting just what it says, a free full version.
2. Office 2003 installs itself by default in Program Files/Microsoft/Office 11. You do not have to uninstall your previous version. However you can only use one version of Outlook, so if you install Outlook 2003 you won’t be able to use your present version of Outlook. As for #5 I have found Office 2003 to be very intuitive about finding documents and files. If you have your .pst in it’s default location it shouldn’t have any trouble.
3. Like previous versions of Office, 2003 can open earlier versions. And like previous versions, 2003 has it’s own file format, so you will be prompted to save in either the previous or the new versions.
4. Same as above.

Try it you’ll like it! I am in the camp that really likes Outlook 2003. It is decidly the app that has changed the most, but if you are open minded about the changes, you will quickly grow to become quite attached to them. Other big changes in 2003 are in XML support, and Information Rights Management. One Note is an intriguing tool, do try it out. It is definitely a 1.0 release, but even with a keyboard and desktop it can be quite a useful place to quickly store bits of information. It’s kind of an uber-clipboard.

As to why MS has been casting these free copies to the wind, I can only guess, but since they’re single copies maybe they figure that the “new technology guy” (you???) in the office will get everybody else hooked.

Have fun. Post back with any problems or comments. Once you get going I’ll show you a neat trick with the Outlook flags!

kip

Fred,

Glad to hear you’re making progress. I won’t answer in detail, but on question #1, it’s the corrollary to You Can’t Have Enough RAM: More Power is Better. However it is sounding like your problems were related more to bad partitions or some such. The message here though is that just because you can buy great big hard drives doesn’t necessarily mean that your computer will be able to handle them, either through the BIOS or through the power supply. And the funny thing is that often hard drives don’t just fail when they are underpowered. Seems like some kind of “Insufficient Power” error message would be a good thing for the next generation of computing. If the BIOS is reporting the hard drives correctly, there’s no reason to do an update. Some older BIOS’s were not written to handle these big new hds, and require an update to get them to work correctly.

You say in another response here that you are still having XP problems, and it is important to note that one of the reasons that XP is so stable is that it is quite picky about hardware and configuration. 98 would let you slide with a lot of things that XP won’t, but of course then it would crash. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to make sure your drives are up and running properly and then do a reformat/reinstall of XP and your programs. What XP really likes is a good clean slate to work from.

As for the quote, it’s from Jim Boyce’s “Windows XP Power Tools”, published in 2002 by Sybex. I think it was in a section on networking. I didn’t use a more direct attribute here because, well he’s Woody’s competitor, right? The quote was too good to pass up, though. ( I consider myself quite sufficiently talented, by the way)

Fred,

Glad to hear you’re making progress. I won’t answer in detail, but on question #1, it’s the corrollary to You Can’t Have Enough RAM: More Power is Better. However it is sounding like your problems were related more to bad partitions or some such. The message here though is that just because you can buy great big hard drives doesn’t necessarily mean that your computer will be able to handle them, either through the BIOS or through the power supply. And the funny thing is that often hard drives don’t just fail when they are underpowered. Seems like some kind of “Insufficient Power” error message would be a good thing for the next generation of computing. If the BIOS is reporting the hard drives correctly, there’s no reason to do an update. Some older BIOS’s were not written to handle these big new hds, and require an update to get them to work correctly.

You say in another response here that you are still having XP problems, and it is important to note that one of the reasons that XP is so stable is that it is quite picky about hardware and configuration. 98 would let you slide with a lot of things that XP won’t, but of course then it would crash. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to make sure your drives are up and running properly and then do a reformat/reinstall of XP and your programs. What XP really likes is a good clean slate to work from.

As for the quote, it’s from Jim Boyce’s “Windows XP Power Tools”, published in 2002 by Sybex. I think it was in a section on networking. I didn’t use a more direct attribute here because, well he’s Woody’s competitor, right? The quote was too good to pass up, though. ( I consider myself quite sufficiently talented, by the way)

Hmm let’s start from the beginning.
1. Possible hardware problem = Power Supply. I wouldn’t recommend a PS less than 350w to drive a 180 and a 250g hd. Hard drives pull a lot of power, as Al found out.
2. Motherboard/BIOS issues? Does the BIOS detect/report the hard drives properly? You may want to check into upgrading the BIOS
3. Get the partitions correct. Your last statements about the 250g hd and that last 33g partition = not good.

I’m confused by your posts about where c, d, and e are physically. Which drives are they on?

good luck,
kip

Hmm let’s start from the beginning.
1. Possible hardware problem = Power Supply. I wouldn’t recommend a PS less than 350w to drive a 180 and a 250g hd. Hard drives pull a lot of power, as Al found out.
2. Motherboard/BIOS issues? Does the BIOS detect/report the hard drives properly? You may want to check into upgrading the BIOS
3. Get the partitions correct. Your last statements about the 250g hd and that last 33g partition = not good.

I’m confused by your posts about where c, d, and e are physically. Which drives are they on?

good luck,
kip

You disable the “IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service” through Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services in XP Home.

kip

You disable the “IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service” through Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services in XP Home.

kip

I’m guessing here but if you could find a temporary donor of 95, 98, ME, etc, even in German, it would probably work. Remember that you don’t have to actually install anything from the old disk, you just have to show it to XP to prove that you’re qualified.

good luck,

kip

I’m guessing here but if you could find a temporary donor of 95, 98, ME, etc, even in German, it would probably work. Remember that you don’t have to actually install anything from the old disk, you just have to show it to XP to prove that you’re qualified.

good luck,

kip

It’s available for SP1, yes, but not for the beta SP2. A little bit of conflicting info between SMBP’s post and his Title, perhaps an attempt to conform to the NDA??? Anyway with the beta the update is not available (Don’t ask me how I know. I’ll never tell…Augggghhhhhh)

kip

It’s available for SP1, yes, but not for the beta SP2. A little bit of conflicting info between SMBP’s post and his Title, perhaps an attempt to conform to the NDA??? Anyway with the beta the update is not available (Don’t ask me how I know. I’ll never tell…Augggghhhhhh)

kip